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Ruminatory, and often necessary, thinking can be effectively achieved when a body and its brain are in a horizontal position. The increased flow of blood to the brain will likely enhance lateral and abstract mind distortions.
There is always the threat of the ruminating brain/body organism being overtaken by sleep. This threat isn't always a negative, though, since sleep is an 'activity' most human organisms tend to under do. If the foggy head of sleep rears its somnolence whilst a human is engaged in horizontal rumination, submission may be for the best. However, sleep rarely makes an appearance during late night or early morning ruminations, and usually appears in the hour prior to the designated 'time to get up'.
Which takes us, inexorably, to insomnia.
I suspect that the need for lateral and abstract mind distortion is why insomnia is so rabid amongst humans: Not enough time is spent lying down. Hence, lateral and abstract mind distortion isn't adequately met, and rumination is forced to occur whenever it finds an opportunistic horizontal moment, often when a person is trying to sleep.
PS: This blog post was brought to you by half-baked theories and I seem to be doing a lot of lying down these days.
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